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SPECviewperf 15.0.1 Linux Edition, Mike Blumenkrantz Explains Recent Graphics Work
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SPEC puts Linux workstations on the professional graphics scoreboard
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released the SPECviewperf 15.0.1 Linux Edition benchmark, bringing its professional graphics test suite to x86_64 and aarch64 Linux workstations. The benchmark runs eight OpenGL workloads representing applications such as Catia, Creo, Maya, SolidWorks, Siemens NX, and Blender, without requiring users to license those applications. It is free for end users, and it gives studios, engineers, and buyers a standardized way to compare GPUs, drivers, and platforms on Linux.
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Mike Blumenkrantz: That Time I Fought Draw And Won
Way, way, way back in the day, there was EXT_shader_object, and inside Big Triangle there was a lot of debate about how things should work. By this time, I had long since infiltrated their organization. They viewed me as one of their own. Because of this, I was able to influence their sinister operation.
My plotting was even more underhanded than the Big Triangle fat-cats, and I nudged them to design tessellation shader objects in a manner which matched OpenGL. Specifically, all the spacing and vertex ordering mechanics were specified in the same shader stages as OpenGL. The D3D members of Big Triangle were asleep at the wheel. My influence went unopposed.